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Sample of authors
Beckett, Simon
English author whose crime novels have become more popular in other countries – including Scandinavia and Germany – than at home. Simon Beckett was born in a working-class family in Sheffield, and graduated with a B.A. in English from Sheffield Polytechnic (now Hallam University) and subsequently gained an M.A. at Newcastle University. He then worked for several years as a janitor and for a whi...
Literary figures
Bunny (Harry) Manders
Gender: Male
At school, Harry (Bunny) Manders got to know A.J. Raffles, and as adults they became very good friends, E.W. Hornung tells us. To his amazement, Manders discovers that his friend is a clever master thief, and reluctantly agrees to help him – which ends up with Manders being forced to serve a prison sentence. He is otherwise a sensible, friendly and basically honest gentleman, a bachelor just l...